My first novel, Outside In, won the 2014 USA Best Book Award for Literary Fiction, 2014 International Book Award for Literary Fiction, and a bronze 2015 Independent Publisher’s Book Award. Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight, Happy Mutant Baby Pills, OG Dad) said, "The author owns a poet’s eye and an ear for the funny/tragic dialogue of the American lost and searching worthy of comparison to Mamet, Sherwood Anderson, and Joy Williams.”